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...tourist who called himself Hugo Muller. After he got off the plane, she separated Muller from the nine other passengers who had arrived in Tel Aviv from Vienna aboard Austrian Airlines Flight 712 and led him to a screened-off room for a baggage check. When Muller obeyed her request and opened the bag he was carrying, explosives inside it killed them both and wounded ten other people. After making inquiries in Europe, Israeli authorities concluded that "Muller" was a courier for Palestinian guerrillas. In Beirut, George Hasbash's militant Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine claimed responsibility...
...Winthrop House Committee which originally drafted a request several weeks ago that the House dining hall alter its hamburger-serving policy. Balsam's compliance with the student request reportedly got him in trouble with Buford Simpson, manager of the College Dining Hall, and, according to several witnesses, resulted in a threat by Simpson to fire Balsam...
Secondly, the faculty voted to reject Hartman's request to attend its debate next fall either in person or through counsel. This decision was wrong for several reasons. First, while Hartman will not be permitted to attend, the faculty members charged with wrongdoing may do so. Thus they will have not only the advantage of stating their case directly to the faculty but also of voting on the GSD's resolution of the affair. For example, GSD Dean Maurice D. Kilbridge, who was involved in the Hartman controversy in 1969-70, attended last week's meeting and spoke against giving...
Other customers do. Waiting time for a new Mercedes-Benz ranges from five months to 14 (for the relatively plebeian-priced $6,738 diesel 200 model), and would-be buyers who are not employees are getting annoyed. So Daimler-Benz has made an odd request: that employees sell their year-old models not to the highest bidder but to Mercedes dealers, who will recondition the cars and sell them. "We are appealing to our employees' sense of responsibility," says a company spokesman. "We point out that they will be helping to ensure the company's future if they...
Those who opposed the motion to postpone also argued that the issues and facts of the case had been laid out by Hartman's previous statements and the two committee reports. However, the Academic Policy Committee disagreed, favoring Hartman's request for a delay that passed after an hour-long debate...